James Welcome. Drop me an email (peterdav...@gmail.com) I'd like to arrange a time/day to have a chat about some ideas.
On Aug 28, 9:31 am, James Hill <adwo...@hillj.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm James, I've just moved to Sydney from Manchester, England. > > Right now I'm finding my feet and looking for quick income to get > myself set up. My technology background is primarily open source > (PHP, MySQL, PERL, C, Linux, etc), so if anyone has any suggestions > for freelance or short term contract work programming or doing > sysadmin, I'd love to hear about them. > > Business wise I ran my own business back in the UK, but due to co- > founder disagreements I'm no longer a part of that. We were teaching > people the taxi 'knowledge' for our bread and butter income, and the > long term plan was to own the consolidation of the UK taxi industry. > I still want to go back and finish off that project, but I'm taking > some time out to relax, work on easier projects, and build up my track > record and capital. > > I'm going to start a business here in Australia, but I haven't decided > what yet. Some ideas include: > > Online prescription glasses sales: There's a company doing really > well with this in the UK. The niche isn't empty in Australia, but > seems overpriced. > > Online takeaway ordering: Again, a company in Europe is doing really > well with this, and it doesn't seem to have hit Australia yet. > > Social Calendar for iPhone etc: On my phone, I have a calendar that > beeps to tell me whenever anything I think is interesting will be > happening. I built up a list of interesting weekly events over time > manually. It'd be great if there was a service where I could say > where I was, what I was interested in, and it'd tell me what was on > near me. Bonus points if it could pick up my location via GPS when > travelling. > > Anyone got any comments on the business ideas? I'd love some > feedback. > > Please accept my apologies, as I RSVP'd yes to the drinks last night, > but couldn't make it due to covering my hosts kitchen and all of my > clothes with delicious home made tomato soup. I'm looking forward to > meeting you next week! > > Kind Regards, > > James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
